Coty respects your privacy. We take precautions to safeguard your personally identifiable information. At the same time, Coty collects information that you voluntarily provide to us online as part of our continuing efforts to improve our product offerings and enhance your online visits to our various brand websites, including, Rimmel London, Stetson Cologne, Stetson Untamed, Preferred Stock, Jovan Sexy, Jovan White Musk, Jovan Heat, Jennifer Lopez Fragrances, Vanilla Musk, Calgon Take Me Away, Celine Dion Beauty, Exclamation by Coty, Aspen Cologne, Vanilla Fields, the Healing Garden, Cotyshop, and Coty Wild. We encourage you to read about Coty's privacy policy and practices concerning online data use.
Coty offers its line of fragrance and beauty care products in many countries. Individual countries often have different privacy laws. In addition to our general online privacy policy, Coty has adopted the following supplemental country-specific policies.
Coty knows you care how personal information about you is used by us and/or shared with others. Coty values your trust. We seek to safeguard your personally identifiable information and honor your requests for privacy. This notice describes our online privacy policy and practices, including what information we collect and how we use it.
By visiting any of our various brand sites, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice. Unless you tell us otherwise, whenever you submit personally identifiable information to us online, you are giving your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information, as described herein.
Coty collects data from our various brand websites (i.e., Rimmel London, Stetson Cologne, Stetson Untamed, Preferred Stock, Jovan Sexy, Jovan White Musk, Jovan Heat, Jennifer Lopez Fragrances, Vanilla Musk, Calgon Take Me Away, Celine Dion Beauty, Exclamation by Coty, Aspen Cologne, Vanilla Fields, the Healing Garden, Cotyshop, and Coty Wild) through sampling offers, sweepstakes entries, newsletters, etc. We collect information concerning your lifestyle/interests, preferences and attitudes to assist us in our product development and marketing. We are also interested in making your visits to our websites useful and enjoyable. We try to customize your website experience in a way that is tailored to your unique interests. At the same time, we give you options to assist us in customizing your visits. This is accomplished through our Beauty Pass link.
Through Beauty Pass at www.cotyshop.com, you can request free samples of Coty products, find out more about sweepstakes, new products and product promotions. Beauty Pass also allows you to customize and manage your Coty profile. If you are a registered user of Beauty Pass, you can access a global opt in/opt out level for all of our brand websites, complete with your personal information. For brands that have quizzes or contests, visitors are eligible to modify their information during the period the contest or quiz is live. We want you to have fun while knowing that your personally identifiable information is protected.
The information Coty learns from customers helps us continually improve the services we provide to you. Here are the types of information we gather.
Information You Give Us: Coty receives and stores any information you enter on our Web sites or give us in any other way. However, you can choose not to provide certain information. However, if you do so, then you might not be able to take full advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future visits based on your interests, awarding prizes for sweepstakes/contests, improving our service and communicating more effectively with you.
Automatic Information: Coty receives and stores certain types of information automatically whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use 'cookies.' In that way, we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses our site. There are a number of companies that offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although Coty will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, you should be aware that these disabling tools exist.
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that Coty transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser. They enable our systems to recognize your browser. If we recognize you, Coty can provide more customized or personalized features each time you log on to one of our brand websites.
The 'help' portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and/or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of our sites' features. Coty recommends that you leave them turned on.
It is possible that some of Coty's business partners may also use cookies on our websites. However, Coty has no access to, or control over, these cookies. Therefore, we do not accept any responsibility for such use.
When you visit Coty's websites or view one of our e-mails, we may use pixel tags (also called 'clear gifs'), tracking links and/or similar technology to note some of the pages you visit on our websites. These help us personalize your experience. We may also use pixel tags to determine what types of e-mail your browser supports. Coty may use the information collected through pixel tags, tracking links and similar technology in combination with your personally identifiable information.
Coty does not read your private online communications.
Coty does not use any information about where you personally go on the Web and we do not give it out to others.
Coty does not give out your personally identifiable information such as telephone number, credit card information or screen names.
Coty also gives you the opportunity to correct your personal contact and other personally identifiable information that you have provided to us at any time.
Coty may use information about the kinds of products you buy to make other marketing offers to you, unless you tell us not to by opting-out via email or through your Beauty Pass registration.
Coty, via your Beauty Pass registration, gives you choices about how your personal information is used.
The information you provide may be used by Coty to create and deliver to you newsletters, e-mails, surveys or other communications containing product information, offers, sweepstakes, contest information, promotions or information concerning your order.
Coty may use the information you provide in an aggregate form for internal business and planning purposes, such as generating demographic data and statistics or developing marketing plans.
Coty may collect, store and accumulate certain non-personally identifiable information concerning your use of our websites, such as information regarding which of our pages, brand sites, contests or promotions are most popular. Coty may share or transfer such non-personally identifiable information with or to our affiliates, licensees or partners.
Coty may disclose information, including personally identifiable information, we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. Coty, as a rule, does not itself conduct direct sales of our products online; however, in the event of any on-line purchases, Coty may exchange information, including personally identifiable information, with other companies and organizations to process or fulfill orders submitted by you and for credit fraud protection and risk reduction.
Coty may use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our websites, track traffic patterns and gather demographic information for aggregate use.
Information about our customers is an important part of Coty's business. However, Coty is not in the business of selling our database to others. We share customer information only with subsidiaries we control, affiliates or specific business partners or agents and only as described below.
Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: Coty works closely with other business partners including our licensors such as adidas and our Sony/Epic affiliation. In some cases, these businesses operate stores or separate websites linked to our websites or will want to send offerings to you, but only when you tell us/them to by opting to receive partner information. You can tell when another business/partner is involved in a promotion and we only share customer information with that business when you tell us by opting-in.
Agents: Coty employs other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions. However, they are not authorized by Coty to use it for other purposes or provide it to anyone else.
Protection of Coty and Others: Coty reserves its right to release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law, enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of ourselves, our users or others. This may include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Links: Coty's websites may contain links to and from other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. This privacy policy only applies to the information Coty collects on our various brand websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any other websites to which you link from our websites.
Third Parties: Coty may retain other companies and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples include data analyses firms, customer support specialists, fulfillment companies (e.g., companies that fill product orders or coordinate mailings, sweepstakes, contests or promotions) and web-hosting companies. Such third parties may be provided with access to personally identifiable information needed to perform their functions. However, they are not authorized by Coty to use such information for any other purpose or transfer it to anyone else.
If you receive any future e-mailings from Coty, you may opt out of these mailings at any time by clicking on a link in the e-mail you receive. Our e-mail practices are designed to comply with the United States Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (the 'CAN-SPAM Act').
Our websites are directed toward and designed for use by persons aged 13 or older. Coty will not approve applications of, or establish or maintain accounts or memberships for, any child whom Coty knows to be under the age of 13. Coty does not solicit or knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. Coty's various brand websites are designed to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. In that regard, we seek parental permission before collecting personal information from anyone under the age of fourteen.
If you choose to visit Coty's brand sites, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms and Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes and application of the laws of the State of New York in the USA. Our business changes constantly. This Notice and the Terms and Conditions of Use will change also. The use of information that Coty gathers is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. Coty may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to. You should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes that have been posted.
All pages where you provide personal credit card information use Secure Server Software (SSL) encryption technology. SSL is the industry standard and among the best software available today for secure transactions. Coty uses secure technology, privacy protection controls and restrictions on employee access in order to safeguard your personal information.
Coty supports industry self-regulatory efforts. We believe such actions are the best way to protect the privacy of the consumer. Currently, Coty is actively seeking participation in a number of standard-setting groups focused on information practices and individual privacy issues.